Meiji

`Sushi bars are a dime a dozen," says Alan Chou, and Kevin Park agrees. But when both men opened Japanese restaurants last year, they took radically different paths to distinguish their operations from the crowd. Meiji, owned by Chou, is a refined, restrained temple of Japanese tradition, focusing on foods and preparations rarely seen elsewhere. Agami is all glitter and glamor, a nightclub atmosphere where food, especially certain signature dishes, is fun. Meiji This might be Chicago's...

Oct 25 (Reuters) - Chinese newspapers available in Beijing and Shanghai carried the following stories on Friday. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. CHINA SECURITIES JOURNAL - Net profit of Chinese insurers jumped 134.9 percent in the first nine months of this year to 91.75 billion yuan ($15.09 billion), due to a low base last year and improved investment returns, according to the China Insurance Regulatory Commission. SHANGHAI SECURITIES NEWS ...

Students who are learning English as a second language at Ridge Elementary School in Elk Grove Village will benefit from a $10,000 grant given to the school's bilingual education program by Meiji Corp., which has an office in Elk Grove Village. According to Lee Mydill, principal at Ridge School, Meiji Corp., based in Japan, awarded the grant in recognition of the school's efforts to teach English to non-English speaking students. Yoshihiro Yasui, president of Meiji, stipulated that the...

SHANGHAI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Japan's Meiji Holdings Co Ltd said it would pull out of China's baby formula market, the first international firm to retreat from the market following a pricing crackdown and as Beijing moves to help local firms compete with foreign rivals. China is a magnet for foreign infant milk formula makers, with the $12.4 billion market expected to double by 2017. However, foreign firms have come under pressure amid a crackdown on...

Oct 25 (Reuters) - Chinese newspapers available in Beijing and Shanghai carried the following stories on Friday. Reuters has not checked the stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. CHINA SECURITIES JOURNAL - Net profit of Chinese insurers jumped 134.9 percent in the first nine months of this year to 91.75 billion yuan ($15.09 billion), due to a low base last year and improved investment returns, according to the China Insurance Regulatory Commission. SHANGHAI SECURITIES NEWS ...

TOKYO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Japan's Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance may buy around 700 billion yen ($7.19 billion) in domestic bonds in the six months to March but it is cautious about buying debt at current yield levels, a senior official at the insurer said on Thursday. Meiji Yasuda, Japan's third largest private life insurer with total assets of about 32 trillion yen, reduced its domestic bond holdings in the April-September as the market became ...

The gastronomic glitterati (or, as we call them here at metromix, the gastrati) are out in force on Randolph Street's restaurant row: Look, over there--it's Food Network's Mario Batali chatting it up with Koren Grieveson in front of Avec. And hey, and isn't that Blackbird's Paul Kahan milling about next door, shaking hands with a fawning foodie? So why are we heading instead next door to Meiji, the just-opened Japanese/sushi spot in the former d. kelly space? Well, we don't have reservations (or, frankly,...

TOKYO/HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) - Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co said on Friday it has agreed to buy a 15 percent stake in Thai Life Insurance Co as Japanese insurers step up their presence in Southeast Asia. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but Reuters reported last month that Meiji Yasuda would pay about $700 million for the stake. Meiji Yasuda, Japan's second-largest life insurer by premium income after Nippon Life Insurance Co,...

Once a sushi restaurant offers food so fresh that it dies at your table (as Heat did, a few years ago) it's really hard to imagine a splashier (or more disturbing) way for a new Japanese restaurant to get the attention of Chicago's insatiable sushi freaks. But I can tell you that being mysterious worked on me. On my way to Blackbird, I accidentally waltzed into Meiji, next door. It has a distinctive decor that you might call International Industrial Sushi Moderne: stark space, exposed...

TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters) - Japan's Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co plans to buy around 500 billion yen ($5 billion) of foreign bonds, but more with currency hedging than without it, in the financial year to March next year, a company executive said on Wednesday. Japan's third-largest private life insurer is taking a cautious stance on domestic bonds as the Bank of Japan's aggressive easing has made them volatile, Toshihiko Yamashita, ...

SHANGHAI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Japan's Meiji Holdings Co Ltd said it would pull out of China's baby formula market, the first international firm to retreat from the market following a pricing crackdown and as Beijing moves to help local firms compete with foreign rivals. China is a magnet for foreign infant milk formula makers, with the $12.4 billion market expected to double by 2017. However, foreign firms have come under pressure amid a crackdown on...

`Sushi bars are a dime a dozen," says Alan Chou, and Kevin Park agrees. But when both men opened Japanese restaurants last year, they took radically different paths to distinguish their operations from the crowd. Meiji, owned by Chou, is a refined, restrained temple of Japanese tradition, focusing on foods and preparations rarely seen elsewhere. Agami is all glitter and glamor, a nightclub atmosphere where food, especially certain signature dishes, is fun. Meiji This might be Chicago's...

TOKYO/HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) - Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co said on Friday it has agreed to buy a 15 percent stake in Thai Life Insurance Co as Japanese insurers step up their presence in Southeast Asia. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but Reuters reported last month that Meiji Yasuda would pay about $700 million for the stake. Meiji Yasuda, Japan's second-largest life insurer by premium income after Nippon Life Insurance Co,...

Once a sushi restaurant offers food so fresh that it dies at your table (as Heat did, a few years ago) it's really hard to imagine a splashier (or more disturbing) way for a new Japanese restaurant to get the attention of Chicago's insatiable sushi freaks. But I can tell you that being mysterious worked on me. On my way to Blackbird, I accidentally waltzed into Meiji, next door. It has a distinctive decor that you might call International Industrial Sushi Moderne: stark space, exposed...

TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters) - Japan's Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co plans to buy around 500 billion yen ($5 billion) of foreign bonds, but more with currency hedging than without it, in the financial year to March next year, a company executive said on Wednesday. Japan's third-largest private life insurer is taking a cautious stance on domestic bonds as the Bank of Japan's aggressive easing has made them volatile, Toshihiko Yamashita, ...

The gastronomic glitterati (or, as we call them here at metromix, the gastrati) are out in force on Randolph Street's restaurant row: Look, over there--it's Food Network's Mario Batali chatting it up with Koren Grieveson in front of Avec. And hey, and isn't that Blackbird's Paul Kahan milling about next door, shaking hands with a fawning foodie? So why are we heading instead next door to Meiji, the just-opened Japanese/sushi spot in the former d. kelly space? Well, we don't have reservations (or, frankly,...

TOKYO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Japan's Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance may buy around 700 billion yen ($7.19 billion) in domestic bonds in the six months to March but it is cautious about buying debt at current yield levels, a senior official at the insurer said on Thursday. Meiji Yasuda, Japan's third largest private life insurer with total assets of about 32 trillion yen, reduced its domestic bond holdings in the April-September as the market became ...

Students who are learning English as a second language at Ridge Elementary School in Elk Grove Village will benefit from a $10,000 grant given to the school's bilingual education program by Meiji Corp., which has an office in Elk Grove Village. According to Lee Mydill, principal at Ridge School, Meiji Corp., based in Japan, awarded the grant in recognition of the school's efforts to teach English to non-English speaking students. Yoshihiro Yasui, president of Meiji, stipulated that the...